"I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife""She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis""She rolled up a small fortune"

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(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take_care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine .

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

After another two_weeks , the first young emerge , four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker_bees , collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg_laying .

It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large_number of long , branched hairs on its legs , on which the pollen grains will collect .

(Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)

The effluent was collected through two pipes and discharged to the Blue_River through a surface drainage_ditch .

These vehicles , with large sensitive areas , have collected data for long enough times to give reliable impact rates for the periods of exposure .

A measure of the total mass accretion of meteoritic material by the Earth is obtained from analyses of deep sea sediments and dust collected in remote regions ( Pettersson , 1960 ) .

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated , too small a posse had been collected , and since the deputy had not been provided with search_warrants , MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw .

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed_through a column ( * * f ) , the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments , and very little in others .

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

Winston followed her around the room , collecting the small frail objects ( Christmas , birthday , and anniversary ) and wrapping them in tissue_paper .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

What you were looking_for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis_rackets and fly screens ) eludes me , but to judge from phonograph_records scattered about a fumed_oak Victrola , you danced two tangos and a paso_doble , which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu .

On the one side we have the university professors and their students , trained in Teutonic methods of research , who have sought_out , collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic , regional and occupational groups that make_up this nation .